Nursing in comfort

My son is now nearly two months old and yes, I do man­age to nurse him. He takes ages to get full up, so I sit a LOT… I try to walk about nurs­ing him some­times, but it isn’t always a good time or a good idea… So, I have to sit com­fort­able when he is at it or I get really sore!

When I was preg­nant with my first, I pur­chased a nurs­ing chair. It was sold by many baby shops in the UK as a nurs­ing chair, but was also avail­able widely in other stores.

This was the Dutailier Express Jamie Recline Glider & Stool. It cost at the time around £500. This recliner had a nice glid­ing motion and reclined. The recliner could be locked into sev­eral reclined posi­tions and promised to be very comfy. I found the design of the chair was quite old fash­ioned. The other things I did not like was: the foot­stool could not lock into posi­tion — it rocked with the recliner, so it could get dan­ger­ous when babies start crawl­ing and tries to pull them­selves up on it. When I sat for long peri­ods of time on it, my behind got really sore and numb in the end… So when my daugh­ter was big enough to crawl, I got rid of the chair. The glid­ing and reclin­ing was good, but just not that amaz­ing to make me keep it.

So, when I got to think­ing about nurs­ing this time around, I had a look at the Stress­less from Eko­rnes. Now, this one does not com­pare with the Dutailier at all. Well, not when it comes to price (any­thing from 800 to 3,000euros) styling or com­fort. We wanted a recliner for our liv­ing room and the Stress­less hap­pened to come in the same colour leather as our sofa. It also comes in dif­fer­ent sizes and usu­ally has a foot­stool as well. The Stress­less comes in var­i­ous designs and sizes. There will be one to suit any­one. We planned to use the recliner in our liv­ing room for as long as we needed it there and then move it up into the nurs­ery, where I could even have a nap in it.

Well, we have just come to the con­clu­sion that the recliner will not move into the nurs­ery. It is every­thing we had wanted, so it is just too spe­cial to be hidden…

Ikea has launched a rock­ing arm­chair in their POÄNG series, so I looked at it. It is pretty mod­ern and comes in var­i­ous colours. Although it comes at a really good price of around 100 to 300 euros (includ­ing a foot­stool), It was just not to my liking.

The FATBOY bean­bag is sold in many stores here in our home city, and mydaugh­ter hap­pened to love play­ing on them. So I went and tried it out. The FATBOY sits really comfy and looked like it would work. If we wanted to move it to a dif­fer­ent room, it weighs only 9kg end you can eas­ily find a comfy seated posi­tion on it. We could have a play on it and my daugh­ter can pull it around. So this seemed like a fun item. It only costs 179euros if you buy from the web­site and deliv­ery was included in the price. I ordered at lunchtime and the next morn­ing it was deliv­ered! I tried it out and found that this was the most comfy for nurs­ing. I cre­ated a “bucket” seat for myself, lift­ing my knees to sup­port my arms, so tak­ing the strain off my arms when hold­ing my baby when nurs­ing. I found I could eas­ily push it into shape to sup­port my head very com­fort­ably so I could relax my neck too. Yes, it could be tricky to get up out of it, but if you shape it so you don’t sit too close to the floor, it isn’t too bad. We love it.

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